Yeah I had the same issue with gold in TBC, I started TBC with ~16k and that went very quickly with me buying epic flying on 2 toons and getting to 375 tailoring. I mainly made my gold through fishing in TBC, there was so many useful items that were obtained through fishing and it was just a casual gold farm. I still did flip some items but mainly it was fishing.
Once WotLK started though is when I started to really lean heavily into AH flipping and even making my TSM favourite searches reflect that.
I have no idea what this could be, how mysterious.
Ah yeah a nice investment with a remarkable return, I’ve seen people running around with two different ones for Xmog.
I bought pretty much all of the whelplings, all but one, I farmed the Azure Whelpling and let me tell you it wasn’t fun. I made a thread on how to get vanity pets and I linked a probability chart of getting a whelpling.
I got mine after ~1,600 kills over the course of like a week.
The chart
Items like the Ethereum Nexus-Reaver will be quite expensive I’d assume in early Cataclysm before prices begin to settle but it’s hard to predict the potential profit from such items.
Yeah, I’ve only really done one GDKP and that was back in Classic. It was an AQ40 run and I got the Silithid Sword off of Visc for 3k (was a lot for me at the time) and it got replaced like 1 week later in a guild run in Naxx. I don’t know I just don’t like spending gold to get gear you could otherwise get for free.
Sucks that the RL took the gold and ran but what can you do…